Word: pros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Running away from the police with a bullet in his arm, Lucky Wilson comes upon Pa Miller (Whitford Kane), a pros perous hay and chicken farmer, living in a saltbox house by Cedric Gibbons. The Miller family?Pa, Ma, Pauline (O'Sulli van), who teaches school, and her little brother Willie?do their best to make Lucky feel at home. Willie shows him the rabbits. Pauline takes him cherry picking. Says she : "You have to whistle when you're picking cherries to show that you're not eating any." When the detectives finally catch up with Lucky Wilson...
...Ryder Cup team enter without qualifying in their sections. Nonetheless, Walter Hagen, Densmore Shute, Craig Wood, Paul Runyan and Gene Sarazen said the time was inconvenient. They had exhibition dates. There was talk of withdrawing the $9,000 guarantee, counter-suggestions of withdrawal by many of the pros who were entered. Finally, grinning little Sarazen and smiling little Runyan appeared at Blue Mound, but not Hagen, Shute or Wood...
...Liberal Club would do better service of by pursuing its old policy and that of the present Harvard Inquiry in discussing fairly both sides of the question, and at the sacrifice of a definite decision, to learn the pros and cons of the situation. It would also be much more to the point if the organization would espouse some live issue nearer home, such as a discussion of the Fascist tendencies in the United States; or, if they must condemn something, let them try Mr. W. R. Hearst...
Their weekly Washington letter ($25 per year) is a careful reflection of Capital sentiment on fiscal questions, with pros & cons duly weighed. It is long on discussion, short on prediction. In general it takes a long-range view. A half-dozen staffmen maintain personal contacts on Capitol Hill and in. government departments. The letters are compiled in the Munsey Building...
Dropped. The case of North Carolina v. Elsbeth Holman ("Libby") Reynolds, 26, & Albert ("Ab") Walker, 19; by a nolle-pros action; in Winston-Salem, N. C. Cleared, not exonerated, were defendants Reynolds & Walker of the murder last July (TIME, July 18; Aug. 15) of Zachary Smith Reynolds, 20, eccentric heir to the Camel cigaret fortune...